{"id":92757,"date":"2015-05-29T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92757"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T16:44:24","slug":"california-they-are-trying-to-sneak-euthanasia-into-your-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/05\/california-they-are-trying-to-sneak-euthanasia-into-your-state.html","title":{"rendered":"California! They are trying to sneak euthanasia into your state!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Reader Dr. Thomas McKenna writes:<\/p>\n

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\nSIGN PETITION NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n

A threatening legislative cloud is looming ominously over the Golden State of California right now.<\/p>\n

In less than 24 hours, proposed physician-assisted suicide legislation could clear its first hurdle with an approval vote by the State Senate.<\/p>\n

Passage of proposed Senate Bill 128 would then move it to the State Assembly for consideration. California is on the verge of decriminalizing what until today is legally considered homicide.<\/p>\n

My wife is a gynecological oncologist. Her healing hand has saved countless lives of women both young and old.<\/p>\n

In some cases, cancer patients who could have been diagnosed as terminal had their lives extended by years. Like all her medical colleagues, she chose her noble profession to care for people, not kill them.<\/p>\n

This impending legislation means for her \u2013 and your or any doctor \u2013 a violation of their freedom of conscience by forcing them to offer as an option for \u201ctreatment\u201d physician-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

Not even pagans espoused this absurdity. Credit be to them for they are responsible for the Hippocratic Oath, the ethical safeguard sworn to by physicians across centuries to guarantee purity in the practice of medicine.<\/p>\n

The Oath states: \u201cI will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel\u2026with purity and holiness I will pass my life and practice my art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now twenty-four hundred years later, brazen bureaucrats from their bully-pulpits are attempting with a stroke of a pen to vacate that oath replacing healing with homicide.<\/p>\n

Like was attempted with the Obamacare Contraception-Mandate debate just a few years ago, unscrupulous pen pushers are now trying to shove bad medicine down our throats. Not on our watch if I can help it.<\/p>\n

That is why I\u2019m writing to you today. Our time is limited to act. Can I count on you?<\/p>\n

St. Gianna Physician\u2019s Guild is launching its Do No Harm California<\/em><\/a> campaign with a petition to STOP the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n

I urge you to sign it immediately.<\/p>\n

If we are going to have an impact, we need every single signature possible. Numbers matter.<\/p>\n

Your signature counts!<\/p>\n

Doctors, nurses, medical professional and thousands of faithful Catholics like you and I need the legislators to hear in no uncertain terms that they must abandon the fallacy that homicide equates to healing.<\/p>\n

Do No Harm California<\/em><\/a> campaign needs your support today.<\/p>\n

Do not let the California Senate sweep away the morals and ethics of the medical profession. Do not let them harm the body and souls of the feeble and fragile who need love, not neglect, to truly heal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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